An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (125 page)

p. 170: “The Ambassador worked”: Quoted in ibid., 176. For good examples of Joe’s efforts, see Leland Bickford to JPK, n.d., Box 6, PP, and Edward J. Dunn to JPK, Sept. 30, 1952, with Dunn to JFK, Sept. 30, 1952, attached, Box 103, PPP.

p. 170: Lodge had sent word: O’Donnell and Powers, 90.

p. 170: “All along, I always knew”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 757-58. A student of the 1952 campaign found no evidence to refute Lodge’s assertion: Thomas J. Whalen, “Evening the Score: John F. Kennedy, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and the 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race,” Ph.D. dissertation, History Department, Boston College, 1998, pp. 183-84; published by Northeastern University Press in 2001.

p. 170: Jack enlisted Gardner Jackson: Martin and Plaut, 174-75, and Parmet,
Jack,
244-45, 250-51.

p. 171: “He is very popular”: Quoted in Whalen, “Evening the Score,” 262-63.

p. 171: On campaign finance, see Martin and Plaut, 182-83; Parmet,
Jack,
255; and Whalen, “Evening the Score,” who quotes the commentator and Eisenhower, 307-11. Lodge’s complaint is recalled in Vincent J. Celeste OH.

pp. 171-72: The fullest discussion of the
Post
episode is in Whalen, “Evening the Score,” 243-55, 285.

p. 172: “I’ve never doubted”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 764-65.

p. 172: “Listen that was”: Laura B. Knebel OH, and Sheldon Stern to author, Mar. 25, 2002.

p. 172: On JPK and Dalton, see Dalton OH; O’Donnell and Powers, 82-83; and Doris Goodwin, 760-61.

pp. 172-73: For RFK’s role, see Robert Kennedy interview in Martin Papers; O’Donnell and Powers, 84-89; Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
94-95.

p. 173: “organization, organization”: Martin and Plaut, 164. Also see the campaign organization chart set up under RFK in Box 103, PPP.

p. 173: “In each community”: Quoted in “1952 Campaign,” Political Notes, 1952-1958 Folder, Box 25, David Powers Papers, JFKL. Also see Dave Powers to Mark Dalton, April 9, 1952, Pre-Administration Political Files, Box 1, RFK Papers.

p. 173: “Black Book”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 227-28. See Boxes 98-105, PPP, for the many file folders publicizing the policy questions JFK tried to use against Lodge in the campaign. For just two examples, see the comparative charts on “Economy in Government,” Box 98, and “Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs,” Box 100.

p. 174: For Lodge’s loss of conservative support, see Whalen, “Evening the Score,” 303-5.

p. 174: “voters in that election”: O’Donnell and Powers, 91-92.

p. 174: “There’s something about Jack”: Quoted in Martin and Plaut, 178.

p. 174: For the vote, see Whalen, “Evening the Score,” 292-307.

p. 174: “I felt rather like”: Quoted in ibid., 295.

p. 175: On ethnic voting, see “Town Influence Up in Massachusetts Voter Shift”; and John P. McGrail to RFK, Nov. 5, 1952, Pre-Admin. Political Files, Box 1, RFK Papers.

p. 175: “I think that”: Torbert H. Macdonald OH. Also see Boxes 108-111, PPP. The list of those endorsing JFK is in Box 104, PPP. Also see Parmet,
Jack,
246-49, on the campaign’s efforts to attract Jewish voters; and Whalen, “Evening the Score,” 299, and Table One, Appendix A, on winning the women’s vote, as well as Box 112, PPP.

p. 175: For the voting statistics, see Whalen, “Evening the Score,” 299-303.

Chapter 6: The Senator

p. 177: “you will wonder”: Quoted in McCullough, 214.

p. 177: “I’ve often thought”: Quoted in Parmet,
Jack,
260.

p. 177: “‘What’s it like’”: John A. Carver Jr. OH.

p. 178: “Do you pray”: Quoted in Van Wyck Brooks, 418. Also see John F. Kennedy,
Profiles,
2.

p. 178: “I’d be very happy”: Paul Healy, “The Senate’s Gay Young Bachelor,”
Saturday Evening Post,
June 13, 1953.

p. 178: “the fine art” and “realizes that once”: JFK,
Profiles,
5, 10.

p. 179: “A pleasant brunet”:
Chicago Tribune,
Jan. 6, 1962.

p. 179: “If I had said”: Quoted in Sorensen, 62.

p. 179: For Sorensen’s background, see Martin and Plaut, 251-53; Sorensen, 12; Parmet,
Jack,
262-64.

p. 180: “Jack Kennedy wouldn’t hire”: Sorensen, 11.

p. 180: Jack needed a liberal voice: Martin and Plaut, 251.

p. 180: “intellectual than emotional persuasion”: Lasky, 165.

p. 180: “You couldn’t write speeches”: Sorensen, 33.

p. 180: “impressed by his ‘ordinary’ demeanor”: Ibid., 11-12.

p. 180: “were going to throw in with him”: Quoted in Martin and Plaut, 253.

pp. 180-81: “You’ve got to remember”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 243.

p. 181: The office: Burns, 119-20, 213-16.

p. 181: “devoted, loyal, and dedicated”: Lincoln, 18.

p. 181:
Meet the Press,
Nov. 9, 1952, Box 920A, PPP.

p. 181: Developed forty proposals: Sorensen, 64-65; Burns, 120-22; Parmet,
Jack,
265-69.

p. 181: “The Economic Problems of New England—A Program for Congressional Action,” May 18, 25, June 1, 1953, Compilation of JFK Speeches, JFKL. Also see “Legislative Record of Senator John F. Kennedy in 83rd Congress, 1953-54, Box 781, PPP.

p. 182: “no great fireworks”: T. J. Reardon to William L. Batt Jr., April 27, 1954, Box 509, PPP.

p. 182: 30,000 copies: ”Memorandum of Progress of New England Program,” Dec. 15, 1953, Box 552, PPP.

p. 182: The articles: Parmet,
Jack,
269-70.

p. 182: “made some slurring”: T. J. Reardon to Francis Morrissey, Mar. 18, 1954, Box 509, PPP.

pp. 182-83: For JFK’s ruminations about the Seaway, see St. Lawrence Seaway File, Jan. 25, 1953-Jan. 8, 1954, Box 654, PPP. The speech, Jan. 14, 1954, is in Compilation of Speeches.

p. 183: For the
Boston Post
and two congressional supporters, see Parmet,
Jack,
272.

p. 183: At least one Massachusetts newspaper:
New Bedford Standard Times;
see JFK to JPK, Jan. 29, 1954, Box 504, PPP.

p. 183:
Meet the Press:
Feb. 14, 1954, Box 920A, PPP.

p. 183: Worrisome issues to people: Gallup, 1113, 1118, 1125, 1142, 1162, 1194, 1225-26, 1230, 1241, 1255, 1277.

p. 184: “eager boyish”: Charles Bartlett to JFK, n.d., Box 490, PPP.

p. 184: “on the weapons of subversion”: JFK, Address, Wilmington, Del., May 14, 1953, Compilation of Speeches.

p. 184: “not see how”: JFK Speech to American Legion, Oct. 16, 1953, ibid.

pp. 184-85: On defense spending, see Amendments of June 30, 1953 and July 1, 1953 to Mutual Security Act, 1951, Compilation of Speeches; and JFK to L. A. Weicker, Oct. 26, 1953, Box 479, PPP.

p. 185: For Johnson’s report, see L. P. Marvin Jr. to Priscilla Johnson, April 17, 1953, Box 481; Johnson to JFK, April 22, 1953, Box 484, PPP.

p. 185: “the native populations”: JFK to John F. Dulles, May 7, 1953, Box 481, PPP.

p. 185: State Department response: Thruston B. Morton to JFK, May 13, June 12, 1953, Box 481, PPP.

pp. 185-86: Case before Congress: JFK, Amendment to Mutual Security Act of 1951, June 30, 1953.

p. 186: “be administered in such a way”: JFK, Amendment to Mutual Security Act of 1951, July 1, 1953, JFK, Compilation of Speeches.

p. 186: “how the new Dulles policy”: JFK, Cathedral Club, Brooklyn, N.Y., Jan. 21, 1954, JFK, Compilation of Speeches.

p. 186:
Meet the Press,
Feb. 14, 1954, Box 920A, PPP.

pp. 186-87: “No amount of American military”: “The War in Indochina,” April 6, 14, 1954, JFK, Compilation of Speeches.

p. 187: Indochina “is lost”: CBS,
Man of the Week,
May 9, 1954, Box 524, PPP.

p. 187: Attention and praise: See Holmes Alexander column “Capitol Comment,” July 18, 1953, Box 481; George McT. Kahin to JFK, April 8, 1954, Box 488, PPP; and Parmet,
Jack,
284-86.

p. 188: For polls about McCarthy, see Gallup, 1003, 1150, 1164, 1189, 1194, 1201, 1203, 1213, 1225, 1231-32, 1234-35, 1237, 1241-42, 1253, 1263.

pp. 188-89: On LBJ and McCarthy, see Dallek,
Lone Star Rising,
451-57.

p. 189: “Not very much”: Quoted in Burns, 141-42.

p. 189: “Oh, hell”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 248. Also see
Meet the Press,
Dec. 2, 1951, Feb. 14, 1954, Box 920A, PPP.

p. 189: On the confirmations, see Martin and Plaut, 207.

p. 190: “I don’t think”: Kenneth Birkhead OH.

p. 190: “is of such importance”: Speech Prepared for Delivery on the Senate Floor, July 31, 1954, Box 12, Theodore Sorensen Papers, JFKL.

p. 190: McCarthy repudiated: Gallup, 1289.

p. 190: Schlesinger view: Martin and Plaut, 203.

p. 190: “certainly futile”: Quoted in Parmet,
Jack,
302.

p. 190: “Joe McCarthy is the only man”: O’Donnell and Powers, 96.

p. 190: “What was I supposed to do”: Martin and Plaut, 204. Also see Speech Prepared for Delivery, July 31, 1954, Box 12, Sorensen Papers.

p. 191: “I never said”: JFK Interview, Martin Papers.

p. 191: “He liked McCarthy”: Ibid.

p. 191: “I had never known”: Quoted in Martin and Plaut, 204.

p. 191: For JFK’s legalistic defense, see JFK appearance on Martin Agronsky’s
Look Here,
NBC, Nov. 23, 1957, Box 12, Sorensen Papers; and Burns, 151-52.

p. 191: “I went into the hospital”: JFK Interview, Martin Papers.

p. 192: Paul Healy, “The Senate’s Gay Young Bachelor,”
Saturday Evening Post,
June 1953.

p. 192: “Senate’s Confirmed Bachelor”: Parmet,
Jack,
258.

p. 192: One close Kennedy friend: Burns, 127.

p. 193: “He saw her as a kindred”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 233.

p. 193: “They were so much alike”: Quoted in ibid., 241.

p. 193: “Jack appreciated her”: Quoted in ibid., 241-42.

p. 193: “I am a bit concerned”: Smith, 662.

p. 193: “spasmodic courtship”: Quoted in Burns, 127.

p. 194: “she wasn’t sexually attracted”: Collier and Horowitz, 236-37.

p. 194: For the wedding, see Burns, 128, and Parmet,
Jack,
261-62.

p. 194: “At last I know”: Smith, 663.

p. 194: “as well be in Alaska”: Quoted in Burns, 131.

p. 194: “I was alone”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 772.

p. 194: Jackie’s spending and “like a transient”: Collier and Horowitz, 240-41.

p. 194: Jack “insists”: Rose Kennedy to Pat, June 2, 1954, JPK Papers, JFKL.

p. 194: “prepared for the humiliation”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 774.

pp. 194-95: “I don’t think” and “after the first year”: Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, 242.

p. 195: “a bacchanal”: Quoted in ibid., 258.

p. 195: “that being married”: Clymer, 24.

p. 195: For JFK’s health problems, see Dr. Walter B. Hoover to JFK, July 5, 1951, and JFK to Francis Morrissey, Sept. 27, 1951, both in Box 6, PP; and Dr. Sara M. Jordan, RX, n.d., Box 73, PPP. Interviews with Dr. Elmer C. Bartels and Dr. Timothy Lamphier, NHP.

p. 195: “Senator Kennedy has been”: Dr. Vernon S. Dick to Dr. William P. Herbst Jr., Mar. 20, 1953, Box 6, PP.

pp. 195-96: JFK’s back problems: See X rays for Jan. 9, Jan. 22, Oct. 13, 1954, Dr. Janet Travell medical records, JFKL; Lincoln, 53-54; Parmet,
Jack,
307-9; Goodwin, 774.

p. 196: “Jack was determined”: Quoted in Goodwin, 774. The surgery is described in James A. Nichols, M.D., et al., “Management of Adrenocortical Insufficiency During Surgery,”
Archives of Surgery,
Nov. 1955, 737-40.

p. 196: Postoperative problems: Nichols, “Management of Adrenocortical Insufficiency”; Parmet,
Jack,
309-15. Arthur Krock OH.

p. 196: “His entire body shook”: Quoted in Doris Goodwin, 775.

p. 197: Removal of the plate: X rays, Nov. 12, Dec. 16, 1954, Jan. 5, April 27, 1955, Travell medical records.

p. 197: “You know, when I get downstairs”: Charles Spalding OH. Also see JFK’s response to questions about McCarthy in JFK Interview, Martin Papers.

p. 198: “defying constituent pressures”: Sorensen, 74.

p. 198: JFK, “What My Illness Taught Me,”
The American Weekly,
April 29, 1956.

p. 199: “Jack Kennedy’s involvement”: Parmet,
Jack,
323-33. For the tapes, Dictabelt Recordings 25A, 25B, 26, 27, JFKL. For Sorensen’s part in the book, see Profiles in Courage Folders in Box 7, Sorensen Papers. For Jules David’s involvement, see Professor William Gillette, a David student, to author, April 21, 2002. Also see Evan Thomas Sr. OH, Columbia University.

p. 199: The radio journalist and
New York Times
editor: Parmet,
Jack,
330-31; Tifft and Jones, 388; John B. Oakes OH, Columbia University.

p. 199: For the Pearson controversy, see the Sorensen Profiles in Courage Folders, Box 7, Sorensen Papers. Abell, 420.